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If you want to kick off your weekend with some nice news that might just make you cry a little bit, you’re in luck: Today in San Francisco, the Make-A-Wish foundation is helping a five year-old cancer patient named Miles live out a wish to become Batman. Thanks to the overwhelming support of …

With their wobbly gait and tuxedo-style fur, penguins are goofily adorable no matter what they do. In the video below, a tiny penguin has had enough of a human who got a little too close, and charges the man while barking. This surprises the gawker, who slips on the ice and falls down while backing …

Anyone who’s seen ‘March of The Penguins’ knows how lonely being a penguin can be. The frigid winters. The vast and icy emptiness of the Arctic. Still, you wouldn’t necessarily think any of that trademark penguin loneliness carried over to life at the zoo. Not so. Just lo…

The good people at New Friends of Bushy Beach (NFOBB) in New Zealand care for and rehabilitate sick and injured penguins. When they took a yellow-eyed penguin named Jay under their wing, his foot was injured so badly they weren’t sure he’d even survive. We’re happy to repor…